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$xhtml = array(
	'<{title}>' => 'Would-be-sinking ship',
	'takedown' => '2017-11-01',
	'<{body}>' => <<<END
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<section id="drudgery">
	<h2>Drudgery</h2>
	<p>
		My discussion posts for the day:
	</p>
	<blockquote>
		<p>
			The discussion assignment said to address each of the two topics as a <strong>*separate post*</strong>, so my discussion of the grandfather paradox is in the next post down.
		</p>
	</blockquote>
	<blockquote>
		<p>
			I&apos;ve learned that just about every time I begin to hope again, I&apos;m let down big time.
			Science and knowledge are powerful and useful tools, but I don&apos;t see faith as being practical or useful in any way.
			Faith is a misdirect, and doesn&apos;t get you anywhere you wouldn&apos;t already be without it.
			I&apos;m not saying that faith is always going to let you down, mind you.
			For me, things don&apos;t go my way when I expect them to most, but for every person like me, there&apos;s probably someone that happens to get all they have faith in and more.
			The point is that faith is a game of odds.
			Your belief in something doesn&apos;t affect the odds of it being true, nor the odds of it being false.
			Knowledge on the other hand can help you change your beliefs to match the reality, so you&apos;re right more often and are better prepared for things to come.
			At that point, you&apos;re outside the realm of faith and in the realm of educated observation and prediction.
		</p>
	</blockquote>
	<p>
		I ended up not running my Tuesday errands this week.
		The idea was that I&apos;d use that time to make up for my lost time yesterday.
		The thing is though, I didn&apos;t actually finish writing that essay I&apos;d planned to finish yesterday, or in fact, work on it much at all.
		I think I&apos;m still a bit overwhelmed from yesterday&apos;s encounter with the franchise owner.
		Pair that with the ongoing stress coming at me from the university, and you don&apos;t have a good condition to get any work done in.
		I should&apos;ve just run my errands.
		In the hour before I had to head to work, I started reading about my subject matter again and wrote up some of what I needed.
		Still, it wasn&apos;t much.
	</p>
</section>
<section id="work">
	<h2>Franchise owner</h2>
	<p>
		The franchise owner came by again today.
		They emphasised up-selling again, then questioned the head manager&apos;s knowledge of actually running the store.
		&quot;Up-sell, up-sell, up-sell.
		Forget what [the head manager] says about drive being too busy.
		I disagree.&quot;
		Yeah.
		You disagree.
		You&apos;ve probably never seen drive-though during the dinner rush.
		You only see drive-through on off-peak hours.
		The head manager has some major problems, I won&apos;t deny that, but they have a much better picture of how the store actually works.
		They&apos;ve held that would-be-sinking ship together for over a decade now, despite the franchise owner trying to avoid spending money on even the most basic repairs until they&apos;re long overdue, and despite the franchise owner trying to squeeze every little penny they can out of the place.
	</p>
</section>
END
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